Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 2 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 3 | it 's only if you do English literature as well but I do n't . |
| 4 | So if you do this formula in equations , rearranging equations erm put in standard form . |
| 5 | So if I do some potatoes |
| 6 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 7 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 8 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
| 9 | The strain of all this told , especially when he did such things as going on a submarine foray to the Bay of Biscay while the French coast was still in German hands . |
| 10 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 11 | Volunteers constantly tug in all directions while others bewail the imminent end of the organization — just as they did last week , last year and ( in a few cases ) last decade . |
| 12 | People tend to get hold of wrong ideas , just as you did last night . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 14 | I do fucking when I do silly things like I rip bus stop signs |
| 15 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 17 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 18 | Also if we do this self employment , I 'll ask for more admin time . |
| 19 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 20 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 21 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 22 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 23 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 24 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 25 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 26 | Now when you do this sort of assessment do you take into consideration the amount of money I have to pay to go and stay a night at a place like this ? |
| 27 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 28 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 29 | I wo n't go into them today if I did possible savings . |
| 30 | It 's a long time ago since I did any chemistry . |